Day: November 30, 2004
Alabama Clings to Segregationlist Past
Can we just refer to Alabama as The Ass Hole of the Union?
The Great Rose Bowl Prank
Nothing is original anymore. Not even pranks. The flip card prank that Yale pulled on Harvard last week was done a tad more than forty years ago.
In fact, only a handful of people watching the game understood the full significance of what had just happened, and these were the Caltech students who had labored for the past month to secretly alter Washington’s flip-card show.
(quasi-recursively via Tom McMahon)
Revenge CD and Earplugs
Somebody needs to come up with an idiotic idea award and give it to whoever thought of this. If I have to wear earplugs while playing my revenge on my neighbor it seems like I am getting the raw deal once again.
Screw you, America
Terrific essay. Here is a taste.
The Hanging of Mary the Elephant
This is one of the most strangest stories I have read in a long time. An elephant handler is killed by Mary the Elephant , so..
But how were they to destroy a 7500 pound elephant? Shooting her in four soft spots on her head might have worked but was too risky with the crowd of curiosity seekers that the story attracted. She was too smart to eat food laced with cyanide. In 1903 an elephant had been electrocuted at Coney Island, but that was with the help of Thomas Edison. Kingsport or Erwin did not have enough electrical power for an electrocution. Clinchfield could use two engines to crush Mary, or the derrick could be used for hanging her.
There is the story and picture from this website.
(via Monkeyfilter)
The 1930 DeMoulin Bros. & Co.
You just don’t see any North African Negro costumes anymore.